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and that we already have one pentagon. so why do we need the smaller secretive pentagon when we already have, you know, joint special operations command and that type of thing? the other danger is just the secrecy and the transparency and the lack of transparency is that if the default way where you go to war is in secret with fewer people able to see operations, signing off on operations, the greater danger that things could go badly. so that's i think part of the risk. >> charlie: who is nick mohammed. >> nick mohammed was a pakistani taliban leader who rose to prominence in 2004. he was sort of an enemy of the state of pakistan and was facilitating some of the al qaeda figures who were coming over the border from afghanistan into pakistan. >> charlie: facilitating meaning? >> meaning they were escaping the war in afghanistan... >> charlie: finding a safe place for them. >> he was working with them and he was running attacks around the tribal areas into greater part of pakistan and over the border into afghanistan. he en
and that we already have one pentagon. so why do we need the smaller secretive pentagon when we already have, you know, joint special operations command and that type of thing? the other danger is just the secrecy and the transparency and the lack of transparency is that if the default way where you go to war is in secret with fewer people able to see operations, signing off on operations, the greater danger that things could go badly. so that's i think part of the risk. >> charlie: who...
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and the pentagon have both had programs yemen. so there's been a certain redundancy in these operations and what we've -- what we heard both the president say yesterday and other aides to the president talk about on background was this need to sort of shift more of the resources to the pentagon. although it should be pointed out that the c.i.a.'s not entirely giving up its part or its aspect of the drone program. >> brown: so what would this mean for the c.i.a. in terms of how hard it would be to transition back to more of an intelligence-gathering from what i gather has really develope into re of pamilary service. >> right. so for nearly 12 years, the c.i.a. has been in many ways almost singularly focused on counterterrorism capturing, killing, interrogating. and these are very paramilitary functions that the c.i.a. has been deeply involved in. this is maybe just the beginning of a shift back towards more traditional espionage operations and also the strategic analysis that the c.i.a. has done in the past. now, as i write about i
and the pentagon have both had programs yemen. so there's been a certain redundancy in these operations and what we've -- what we heard both the president say yesterday and other aides to the president talk about on background was this need to sort of shift more of the resources to the pentagon. although it should be pointed out that the c.i.a.'s not entirely giving up its part or its aspect of the drone program. >> brown: so what would this mean for the c.i.a. in terms of how hard it...
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to the pentagon, it's complicated as it is right now. all drone strikes in pakistan are conducted by e i.a. all drone strikes in somalia are conducted in pentagon although there hasn't been a drone strike in 15 months and drone strikes in yemen are conducted by the c.i.a. or the pentagon. >> rose: was that going to change? >> well, the problem is that under u.s. law you can not acknowledge covert actions conducted by the c.i.a. so, for example, in pakistan, the united states has creeded its strategic communications plan to the pakistani taliban and the pakistani army who allow some really tremendous misinformation to persist because when the u.s. ambassador is asked repeatedly to articulate what is the u.s. strategy for drone strikes in the tribalreas he can't say anything. so if these were shifted to the military we know how the military conducts operations. we mow the doctrine which it's based upon. we know the military tries to prevent civilian harm with the use of air strikes. we can't know how the c.i.a. does that because we can't a
to the pentagon, it's complicated as it is right now. all drone strikes in pakistan are conducted by e i.a. all drone strikes in somalia are conducted in pentagon although there hasn't been a drone strike in 15 months and drone strikes in yemen are conducted by the c.i.a. or the pentagon. >> rose: was that going to change? >> well, the problem is that under u.s. law you can not acknowledge covert actions conducted by the c.i.a. so, for example, in pakistan, the united states has...
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that the pentagon didn't have before and was not considered appropriate for the pentagon to have before. >> narrator: buried deep inside the pentagon bureaucracy, rumsfeld anointed jsoc with power and money. >> macgregor: one of the reasons that secretary rumsfeld became very enamored of special operations forces was the readiness of special operations forces to deploy and do what they were asked to do, whereas the army presented resistance. >> narrator: jsoc began a systematic series of capture and targeted killing operations. one by one, they aimed for al qaeda leaders wherever they found them. ( explosions ) using conventional war authorities, they did it all with less oversight than the cia. >> clarke: so, in the past, covert action was done by cia, the president had to approve covert action and notify the congress. now, a lot of what looks like the same sort of thing-- covert action-- is done by jsoc. now, they say when they do it, it's not covert action; it's a military operation. so the president does not by law have to approve every operations are not notified. >> narrator: then
that the pentagon didn't have before and was not considered appropriate for the pentagon to have before. >> narrator: buried deep inside the pentagon bureaucracy, rumsfeld anointed jsoc with power and money. >> macgregor: one of the reasons that secretary rumsfeld became very enamored of special operations forces was the readiness of special operations forces to deploy and do what they were asked to do, whereas the army presented resistance. >> narrator: jsoc began a...
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and so just because it's in the pentagon's hand doesn't make it necessarily more transparent or even necessarily more accountable. so, again, just by saying that there's going to be a shift, there's going to have to be more details about what the future is and i thought it was interesting that actually in his speech yesterday president obama didn't even actually mention the c.i.a. once, which does sort of indicate that this transparency only goes so far. >> brown: and how much can you tell at this point about reaction to all this from the c.i.a.? >> well, it's hard to tell. you know, there's certainly constituencies within the c.i.a. that would want to -- would have held on to the bulk of joint operations, the counterterrorism center as i write about has really dramatically expanded since 9/11 and sort of become the beating heart of the c.i.a.. if the drone strikes leave the counterterrorism center and go to the military then the counterterrism center may find itselhaving less pwer witin the agency. that being said, john brennan, the new c.i.a. director, has indicated that he wants t
and so just because it's in the pentagon's hand doesn't make it necessarily more transparent or even necessarily more accountable. so, again, just by saying that there's going to be a shift, there's going to have to be more details about what the future is and i thought it was interesting that actually in his speech yesterday president obama didn't even actually mention the c.i.a. once, which does sort of indicate that this transparency only goes so far. >> brown: and how much can you...
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the pentagon has completed that review. with me now is deputy secretary of defense ashton carter who led it. welcome to the program. >> good to be here suarez: before we talk dollars and cents earlier in the program we talkd about the closure of foreign missions, the evacuation of american personnel. we've been pounding... the united states has been pounding al qaeda in the arabian peninsula from the air for years. how come they're still so able to launch attacks against american interests and assets. >> we have been pounding them for years. but we're taking the situation we face right now very seriously. you see that in the posture that we have. this problem of terrorism, you know, al qaeda and so forth, is something that is going to be part of our strategic future. that's one of the things we considered in the review. as long as there's human society. now there's always going to be the problem of the few against the many. so those of us who have the responsibility for security are always going to need to be concerned abou
the pentagon has completed that review. with me now is deputy secretary of defense ashton carter who led it. welcome to the program. >> good to be here suarez: before we talk dollars and cents earlier in the program we talkd about the closure of foreign missions, the evacuation of american personnel. we've been pounding... the united states has been pounding al qaeda in the arabian peninsula from the air for years. how come they're still so able to launch attacks against american...
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and this was a taskforce that was set up in the pentagon. and it was digned to track war crimes cases in the wake of the exposure of the my lai massacre. >> where 500 men, women, and children were murdered by american g.i.s. >> that's right. the military basically, what they wanted to do was make sure they were never caught flatfooted again by an atrocity scandal. so in the army chief of staff's office, there were a number of army colonels who worked to track all war crimes allegations that bubbled up into the media that gis and recently returned veterans were making public. and they trackeall ese. and whenever they could, they tried to tamp down these allegations. >> your book is very important to me. i was there at the white house in the 1960s when president johnson escalated the war. my own great regret is that i didn't see the truth of the war in time didn't see what was happening there. and yet, as i said, you didn't even come to the experience until after it was all over. and yet you have become obsessed with telling this story. you ha
and this was a taskforce that was set up in the pentagon. and it was digned to track war crimes cases in the wake of the exposure of the my lai massacre. >> where 500 men, women, and children were murdered by american g.i.s. >> that's right. the military basically, what they wanted to do was make sure they were never caught flatfooted again by an atrocity scandal. so in the army chief of staff's office, there were a number of army colonels who worked to track all war crimes...
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that's after the pentagon inspector general cleared allen of any wrongdoing in e-mail exchanges with a tampa, florida woman. allen steps down as overall coalition commander in afghanistan next month. the air force's top general vowed today to put an end to sexual misconduct within the service. figures for 2012 show some 800 reported incidents. many of the cases stemmed from a scandal at lackland air force base near san antonio. an investigation there found 32 instructors allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with nearly 60 female service members. at a house hearing, the air force chief of staff general mark welsh called the numbers appalling. >> there is no way we can allow this to happen again. the air force goal for sexual assault is not simply to lower the number. the goal is zero. it's the only acceptable objective. the impact on every victim, their family, their friends, the other people in their unit is heartwrenching. and attacking this cancer is a full-time job and we are giving it our full attention. so far, six training instructors from lackland have been convicted on char
that's after the pentagon inspector general cleared allen of any wrongdoing in e-mail exchanges with a tampa, florida woman. allen steps down as overall coalition commander in afghanistan next month. the air force's top general vowed today to put an end to sexual misconduct within the service. figures for 2012 show some 800 reported incidents. many of the cases stemmed from a scandal at lackland air force base near san antonio. an investigation there found 32 instructors allegedly engaged in...
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and i know m colleagues here canalk re abt the proposed move to shift to the pentagon from the cia. i'm not convinced it will make a big dichbs. >> let me talk about the president and sitting there choosing targets, and the process he goes through and how-- how, why he believes in it so much. >> well, you know, this has been sort of a little bit of a moving target itself. there's a process that the joint special operations command uses in dod, and there's a ocess that the cia uses. and they're different, they apparently maintain different lists. they both end up in the white house. and certainly initially that was because president obama, you know, recognized that what he was doing was something pretty extraordinary, you know, going into other countries where we're not at war and bumping people off. and he wanted, you know, we were told by his aides that he wanted involvement because he thought it was a big responsibility. got a lot of publicity about a year ago from us and from others for taking a big role in that. and i think his sort of hands on role may have been sort of cut bac
and i know m colleagues here canalk re abt the proposed move to shift to the pentagon from the cia. i'm not convinced it will make a big dichbs. >> let me talk about the president and sitting there choosing targets, and the process he goes through and how-- how, why he believes in it so much. >> well, you know, this has been sort of a little bit of a moving target itself. there's a process that the joint special operations command uses in dod, and there's a ocess that the cia uses....
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a recent pentagon survey estimated 26,000 service members were victims of sexual crimes last year. only 3,400 of those assaults were actually reported to authorities. the latest case came yesterday. an army sergeant at the u.s. military academy at west point was charged with secretly vid- taping female cadets in the bathrooms and showers. no one disputes the gravity of the problem-- the military's top official, general martin dempsey, called it a crisis. but there are arguments on what to do: kwame holman reports on efforts to prosecute the crimes and keep the assaults from happening in the first place. >> reporter: at a naval base in washington, the emphasis is on prevention. senior officers participate in a training program. the 90-minute class is called "take the helm." the teachers-- some of the navy's most experienced instructors and lawyers-- show a movie depicting off-duty sailors. in one scene, they're drinking and partying carousing that could end with a sexual assault. >> not in my room >> reporter: in another, sailors on board ship engage in sexually suggestive behavior.
a recent pentagon survey estimated 26,000 service members were victims of sexual crimes last year. only 3,400 of those assaults were actually reported to authorities. the latest case came yesterday. an army sergeant at the u.s. military academy at west point was charged with secretly vid- taping female cadets in the bathrooms and showers. no one disputes the gravity of the problem-- the military's top official, general martin dempsey, called it a crisis. but there are arguments on what to do:...
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saga and a debate about whether his actions were justified between daniel ellsberg, who leaked the "pentagon papers," and former attorney general michael mukasey. >> brown: then, we examine some good news about dementia, as two studies in europe show plummeting rates of disease, and sharper minds among the elderly. >> ifill: judy woodruff looks at the bitter standoff between walmart and washington, d.c.'s city council, part of a widening fight over paying workers a living wage. >> brown: from the asian nation of myanmar: kira kay has the story of land grabs, as government authorities seize property long tilled by farmers. >> on january 31st, mya hlaing came home to find an eviction notice nailed to his wall. for mya hlaing and his neighbors, it meant they would have to move out in two weeks, or face jail. >> ifill: and wyoming politics takes center stage as liz cheney, daughter of the former vice president, decides to challenge a sitting republican senator. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> supported by the john
saga and a debate about whether his actions were justified between daniel ellsberg, who leaked the "pentagon papers," and former attorney general michael mukasey. >> brown: then, we examine some good news about dementia, as two studies in europe show plummeting rates of disease, and sharper minds among the elderly. >> ifill: judy woodruff looks at the bitter standoff between walmart and washington, d.c.'s city council, part of a widening fight over paying workers a living...
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. >> smith: ...that cras the pentagon. >> yes. >> smith: how did... how did you react? >> i... i basically ran to the bathroom and puked. >> smith: what if that information had been shared? how would it have played out? do you make... >> oh, my god, this is a "if". this is a huge "if". i think the world would different today. i'm convinced. >> smith: no 9/11? >> the world would different. >> smith: you would have put a track on mihdhar, and hazmi? >> i think we could have done many different things. we could have been on those guys like white on rice. >> smith: in fact, the 9/11 commission formed to investigate the 2001 attacks concluded that the failure of the cia to share informatiowith soufas team in yemen regarding khallad, al mihdhar, and al hazmi prevented a possible early detection of the 9/11 plot. so, had they simply been put on a watch list, they would have been picked up..." >> absolutely. >> smith: ...at immigration at l.a. international. >> yep. >> smith: the cia declined frontline's request for an interview, but in a written statement said, "any suggestion that th
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and the issue is not whether or not the advocates in the state department or the pentagon are there. i think at some point the united states government and the white house have to make a decision that syria is an actual danger to america's national scurity interests. it is not somethinwe can wash our hands from. and there are serious dangers and implications to the united states and the president actually to ask its national security team for realistic options that then he request gather his team and debate and decide about. there hasn't, i think, been a serious debate even within the united states government as to what might be our three top options what are the costs and benefits of each. and if we were to pursue one of them, how would we do it. >> is there a legitimate argument that this destabilizes turkey so degree, an important country to the united states, and a nato ally, andrew. >> absolutely. thousands of syrians go over the border into turkey every day. and it's very easy for pkk fighters, kurdish fighters to meld into those refugees, to go across the border and carry out
and the issue is not whether or not the advocates in the state department or the pentagon are there. i think at some point the united states government and the white house have to make a decision that syria is an actual danger to america's national scurity interests. it is not somethinwe can wash our hands from. and there are serious dangers and implications to the united states and the president actually to ask its national security team for realistic options that then he request gather his...
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to that point, all of a sudden we've got 3,000 dead americans, the trade towers are taken out, the pentagon's been hit. if it hadn't been for the folks on 93 they'd have taken out the white house or the capitol on washington, d.c. worst attack in our history. worse than pearl harbor by far. and it was our job to make certain it didn't happen again. we were concerned for a couple of rps, partly because the expectation was there would be a follow on attack, nearly everybody believed it. but we also received intelligence that al qaeda was trying to get their hands on deadlier weapons. >> rose: do you regret nothing about the aftermath in terms of how we -- >> regarding 9/11? >> rose: everything that we did and that you were and the president were at the center of the response to 9/11. look back and say "we regret nothing"? >> that's my view. >> rose: none? >> correct. >> rose: you know this has been debated, too. >> sure. >> rose: were we prepared for the consequences after saddam was overthrown? >> well, that was the second proposition. you asked me about the aftermath of 9/11, the policies we
to that point, all of a sudden we've got 3,000 dead americans, the trade towers are taken out, the pentagon's been hit. if it hadn't been for the folks on 93 they'd have taken out the white house or the capitol on washington, d.c. worst attack in our history. worse than pearl harbor by far. and it was our job to make certain it didn't happen again. we were concerned for a couple of rps, partly because the expectation was there would be a follow on attack, nearly everybody believed it. but we...
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obviously the pentagon is trying to manage the situation as best as they can. but i think all of us should reflect on why exactly are we doing this. why are we doing this? i'm going to go back at this. i've asked my team to review everything that's currently being done in guantanamo. everything that we can do administratively and i'm going to reengage with congress to try to make the case that this is not something that is in the best interests of the american people. >> reporter: likewise, the president said it's not in the country's best interest to keep the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester. >> it slowed our growth. it's resulting in people being thrown out of work. and it's hurting folks all across the country. and the fact that congress responded to the short-term problem of flight delays by giving us the option of shipping monies that's designed to repair and improve airports over the long-term to fix the short-term problem, well that's not a solution. >> reporter: and that was a recurring theme, mr. obama arguing that the failure to a
obviously the pentagon is trying to manage the situation as best as they can. but i think all of us should reflect on why exactly are we doing this. why are we doing this? i'm going to go back at this. i've asked my team to review everything that's currently being done in guantanamo. everything that we can do administratively and i'm going to reengage with congress to try to make the case that this is not something that is in the best interests of the american people. >> reporter:...
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strategist for all of america's foreign policy and the various ageies of the government, state department, pentagon, et cetera, their job is merely to implement. and policy making coming from the state department was not welcome. i mean, i witnessed that firsthand with afghanistan and pakistan. that was the reason why richard holbrooke had so much trouble with the white house because he wasn't there to just take marching orders from a group of young advisors to the president who had come from the campaign to the white house. he actually thought he had something to contribute and every time he thought that that ea that he had to contribute he put forward that was when, you know, the pushbacks came. and the difference was that many others may have basically accepted the way things were. he decided that the he had it -- he had a duty, essentially, to bring his experience and he would push and push and then the secretary defended him and many times they would go directly to the president and some things moved but ultimately the white house was set up organizationally in a particular way that was -- tha
strategist for all of america's foreign policy and the various ageies of the government, state department, pentagon, et cetera, their job is merely to implement. and policy making coming from the state department was not welcome. i mean, i witnessed that firsthand with afghanistan and pakistan. that was the reason why richard holbrooke had so much trouble with the white house because he wasn't there to just take marching orders from a group of young advisors to the president who had come from...
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>> apparently, the agencies, primarily the pentagon and the c.i.a. nominate people to be on the list. and it goes through what the white house promises is a very rigorous process of review to determine if those people should or should not be on the list. we don't know exactly what the standard is. but it involves a number of criteria, including whether the host country, the country in which this person, particular person is cooperative or not vis-À-vis capturing the person. in any event, they have a standard. names are nominated. it goes through an interagency process. and finally it makes it to the president. and he makes the final decision who is or is not on the list. does that sound like what you understand? >> i think that's certainly what the government has said happens. and, of course, this is the problem is that the only thing that we ever know about the counterintelligence stuff over the last 10 or 11 years has been, you know, what the government has been forced to say, what journalists have been able to find out, or what human rights organ
>> apparently, the agencies, primarily the pentagon and the c.i.a. nominate people to be on the list. and it goes through what the white house promises is a very rigorous process of review to determine if those people should or should not be on the list. we don't know exactly what the standard is. but it involves a number of criteria, including whether the host country, the country in which this person, particular person is cooperative or not vis-À-vis capturing the person. in any event,...